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Match.com Q3 2009 Financials

Match.com grew U.S. subscribers 9% in Q3, excluding the addition of approximately 254,000 PeopleMedia. Match revenue down to $81.0M from $93.5M, a 13% drop. Paid subscriptions in the US up 5% to 1,342,000. Paid Subscribers Excluding Match Europe up 31% to 1,068,000....

Online Dating Industry Links 10-28-09

New Twitter dating site Plentyoftweeps.com allows you to search Twitter singles in your area, your friends and followers, and signal interest in and/or send messages to any user on Twitter. I got a few choice quotes in Online dating looks for love on social media....

Online Dating Industry Links 10-21-09

Face-to-Face Socializing Starts With a Mobile Post. I am slightly obsessed with Foursquare. “Foursquare lets users “check in” with a cellphone at a bar, restaurant or art gallery. That alerts their friends to their current location so they can drop by and...

Online Dating Industry Links 10-16-09

I finished reading The Game last night. turns out Courtney Love is on Suicide Girls. So of course I have to go check it out, haven’t been there in years. When I signed up, I was asked if I wanted to join the newbies lounge. Why don’t more dating site offer...

Online Dating Industry Links 10-15-09

From the Frisky, Hong Kong School Girls Dig “Compensated Dating”: In Hong Kong, teenage girls are going on “compensated dates” after school. Basically, they go out with older men in exchange for money, but they don’t see this as prostitution, because in...

Forget Billboards, Dater Creates Infomercial

Check out Tim “TimWow” Goggin. Tired being on dating sites, he started his own website to promote his search for a mate. Frustrated, determined romantic creates his own infomercial to find true love. Tim Goggin, a 32-year-old currently single entrepreneur,...